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FAQ How can you be an atheist Jew?

An atheist is one who disbelieves in (or denies) the existence of God, Gods, and other supernatural beings.
A Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew, or any person who has gone through the formal process of conversion to Judaism.

April 28, 2007

Reddit and Digg Buttons For The New Blogger

You may ask, what does this post have to do with being an Atheist Jew? The answer is nothing. I just wanted to share a few blogging ideas to my readers.If you look at the top right hand corner of this post, you will see a Digg Button. If you are using the new blogger (or blogger beta format) and you want this button, click "template", then "edit html," check the "expand widget box," and follow these instructions:

Now, if you want the Reddit, Digg, and Del.icio.us buttons you see at the bottom of all my posts:Enter Dashboard, select "Template" or "Layout" and "Edit HTML". Select checkbox "Expand Widget Templates". Follow these instructions:

Note: If you have something in the "p class....line-3'" part of your template, then do what I did, and make a new "line-4" which I pasted right after the "/p" for line-3.

Now you may ask, why bother? Well, you want your blog to be read by as many people as possible, don't you? I do. If you have an appealing enough title for your post, and then you submit your story to Reddit or Digg, you will be amazed at how many new hits your blog gets.

CoComment

Another useful free blog tool I use is coComment.CoComment allows you to automatically follow any posts in the blogosphere that you commented on. I have an add-on for it from Mozilla, but I'm not sure if it is needed or not, because I'm really just winging it. I'm not sure how coComment works with other browsers.

Who says atheists, don't help out their fellow man (bloggers)?

Finally, I don't usually participate in internet related "things to do" that are emailed to me, but I couldn't resist this one:

Seven year old Shane Bernier is a brave cancer patient at CHEO and he is asking people to send him a card for his birthday on May 30th. Shane wants to set a world record for the most number of cards received!

I bought the card yesterday and I will mail it on Monday. Here is a link to get Shane's address: http://shanebernier.ca/

Of course, being the skeptic that I am, I had to check out if his story was true or not. Snopes says it is real. If Snopes says it is real, then it must be true.

This is just another pernicious lie disseminated by those who worship at the Altar of Ath. Atheists (as they are known) have no morality, as the latter can only be given by God Almighty. Hence the estimated 9.5 billion murders that have been committed by the Godless.

Your kindness is a mere ruse, an attempt to lure the Righteous from the straight and narrow and into the arms of Ath.

One more thing I forgot to add. Click the Digg vote button opens a page in the Digg site in the same window, taking visitors away from your site. Some may not like that and will have to weight the pros and cons of having the benefit of having the button against losing their visitors to an external site. I did two test to see if I can get the button to open in a new window. In both case, the edit was accepted, but clicking on the button still cause the new page to open in the same window. I have added an update to the post Testing adding a Digg vote button on every post

I stopped using Cocomment a while back (it just stopped working). I use Windows Live Writer as my post S/W, expanding posts hack (via Beautiful Beta), & the recent comments hack. Thanks for the Reddit/Digg ideas. Pretty cool. Feedburner's turned into an ass-pain, though: I can't log back in, it won't email me a lost password (says it does, but it doesn't), & refuses to accept my passphrase.NTM the amount of RSS readers goes up & down regularly.

I can get the icons for delicious etc to show at the end of the posy, but they are not active, so I must be doing doing wrong. oh well, I will either have to change to a new template, or just post my articles to netscape and digg myself. ;)